Aircraft Pilot Survival Training
Aircraft pilots complete many thousands of successful flights each year. A very small number end in a crash or a hard landing. The causes range from weather problems and mechanical failures to pilot errors. Once the aircraft is on the ground, the challenge becomes surviving the environment until help arrives. Working knowledge of wilderness survival is vital for pilots to possess.
Enviro-Tech International’s aircraft pilot survival training meets the needs of pilots, passengers, and crew members. These courses prepare pilots by teaching the essential concepts of survival in a variety of terrain and environmental conditions. With over 40 years of experience, we’ve developed a unique and interactive approach to helping people learn these vital skills. Our courses are packed with valuable lifesaving information, skills, and techniques.
The training emphasizes an organized approach to safety and survival, teaching important priorities such as shelter, fire and heat, water, food, signaling, staying where you are, and when to go for help. The courses also explore other important aspects of survival. Beginning with what happens during a survival emergency, the short-term psychological stresses that play a role in decision making and panic, individual and group dynamics, injuries and how they affect survival planning, hypothermia and cold injuries, and essential survival equipment and kits
We specialize in on-site training programs. We travel to our client’s location. This reduces travel and training budgets and provides a training experience that is more relevant to participants. All of our training programs are tailored to meet your specific requirements.
The course can be presented in a 1-, 2-, or 3-day format. Custom courses of any length are available. Multi-day courses begin with the first day in the classroom, with the remaining time spent in the field working on skills.
AIRCREW SURVIVAL SKILLS
FLYING OVER WATER
Ditching
Water Egress
Required items
Life rafts
Emergency gear
Survival suits
Signaling on the water
FLYING IN COLD ENVIRONMENTS
Survival Gear for the cold
Ice hazards
Avalanche safety
Cold water emergencies
AIRCRAFT SURVIVAL KITS
Primary categories of need
Customizing a kit
Build your own kit
Required Items
Keeping your kit updated
LEARNING TO IMPROVISE
Thinking like a modern caveman
Salvage, Scavenge, and Simplify
Putting it all together
Never give in, and never give up
Enduring and staying alive
COLD and HOT WEATHER SURVIVAL PRIORITIES
THE ANATOMY OF A SURVIVAL SITUATION
Fears and anxiety
Skills vs. will to survive
Controlling Panic
Learning to improvise
SURVIVAL IN COLD CLIMATES
Types of body heat loss
Understanding the layering system
Hypothermia
Frostbite
Water and food requirements
SURVIVAL IN HOT CLIMATES
Hyperthermia and heat illness
Water requirements
Ration sweat not water
Using shade for survival
SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR PILOTS AND PASSENGERS
FIRE and HEAT
Principles of fire making
Heat, signaling and security
Primitive methods
High-tech heat
SHELTER
Principles of shelter making
Lean to
Natural shelters
Snow shelters
Use the aircraft as shelter
SIGNALING
General concepts
Active and passive methods
Primitive methods
Modern methods and pyrotechnics
TRAVEL
Evaluating the situation
When to leave the aircraft
Direction finding methods
GPS and compass review
Using PLB’s satellite tech
Contact us today for a cost quote for an Aircraft Pilot Survival Training Program for your organization
Call: (970) 209-1489
Enviro-Tech International
P.O. Box 2135
Montrose, CO 81402